Research Interest

Dr. Nicholas' research interest is in understanding the mechanisms involved in diabetic kidney disease in order to develop new methods to improve diagnosis, management and treatment strategies. Because of the disproportionate number of ethnic minorities affected by diabetes-related kidney disease, Dr. Nicholas is also involved in a clinical genetic study that investigates susceptibility genes for diabetes and their linkage relationships to kidney disease in Mexican Americans and African Americans. She has established collaborations locally, nationally and internationally, is well published and has serve on several grant review committees.